How long does it take to read They’d Rather Be Right?
Mark Clifton, Frank Riley
They’d Rather Be Right by Mark Clifton, Frank Riley takes about 3 hours 19 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 19 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1954. 181 pages, about 49,775 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 32 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 19 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 4 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
One of 3 novels by early Hugo winner Mark Clifton, exploring ideas re closed vs. open mind, individual vs. group thinking
Subjects: Hugo Award Winner, American Science fiction, Artificial intelligence, Fiction, Immortality
